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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9131087" data-attributes="member: 50987">I'm sure you're right; there are hundreds (thousands?) of comic book characters out there ranging from bumbling henchmen to Literally A God.&nbsp; All I can say is that 5E write-up was over 4000 words long, and that's about as complex of a character as I'm ever willing to play.Except for throwing explosives and blowing up things he touches, you mean?&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL&nbsp; &nbsp; :ROFLMAO:"&nbsp; data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /> I'm not gonna argue the power levels of different superheroes, I got all of that out of my system years ago. But your point stands: 5E isn't going to work for every superhero concept.The way I see it: if you think of &quot;superhero&quot; as someone who can call down lightning with a thought, speak with the dead, teleport, and heal any amount of injury with just 8 hours of sleep, the 5E rules can handle it.&nbsp; If you need more than that, 5E is going to be really frustrating. I had a lot of fun with that write-up, even if it was just a proof of concept.&nbsp; I wanted to see if 5E could handle a &quot;superhero&quot; character, so to test it I chose Gambit...not because Gambit is the hardest or most complex example I could think of, but because he's my favorite: he's the one I'm most familiar with and the one that I would be the most nitpicky about.&nbsp; I figure that if I couldn't write Gambit to my own satisfaction, there's no way I would be able to do any of the others.&nbsp; And it was a lot of fun walking down memory lane, and looking at my old favorite with a new eye.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9131087, member: 50987"] I'm sure you're right; there are hundreds (thousands?) of comic book characters out there ranging from bumbling henchmen to Literally A God. All I can say is that 5E write-up was over 4000 words long, and that's about as complex of a character as I'm ever willing to play. Except for throwing explosives and blowing up things he touches, you mean? :ROFLMAO: I'm not gonna argue the power levels of different superheroes, I got all of that out of my system years ago. But your point stands: 5E isn't going to work for [I]every [/I]superhero concept. The way I see it: if you think of "superhero" as someone who can call down lightning with a thought, speak with the dead, teleport, and heal any amount of injury with just 8 hours of sleep, the 5E rules can handle it. If you need more than that, 5E is going to be really frustrating. I had a lot of fun with that write-up, even if it was just a proof of concept. I wanted to see if 5E could handle a "superhero" character, so to test it I chose Gambit...not because Gambit is the hardest or most complex example I could think of, but because he's my favorite: he's the one I'm most familiar with and the one that I would be the most nitpicky about. I figure that if I couldn't write [I]Gambit [/I]to my own satisfaction, there's no way I would be able to do any of the others. And it was a lot of fun walking down memory lane, and looking at my old favorite with a new eye. [/QUOTE]

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